Improving Teaching at the Institution Level with Lindsay Masland
Sometimes it's useful to see a product, and sometimes it's useful to learn about the process that led to that product. This interview is about the process of developing and implementing a teaching effectiveness framework.
This is a story about institutional change. The product of that change—a new framework for assessing teaching quality now in use at Appalachian State University—is important, but the process that led to that change is just as important because it's by analyzing change processes that academic leaders can affect change on their campuses.
In this episode, I talk with Lindsay Masland, interim executive director at the teaching center at Appalachian State University in North Carolina, who not only helped shape the new teaching quality framework at App State but also launched a grant program that has helped multiple departments do some really important work aligning their programs and policies and procedures with the framework.